akut-akot

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hakut hakut (“kind of mason bee or wasp”). Compare Ilocano akut-akut and Bikol Central hakot-hakot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔakutˈʔakut/ [ʔa.kutˈʔa.kot]
  • Rhymes: -akut
  • Syllabification: a‧kut-a‧kot

Noun

akut-akot (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜣᜳᜦ᜴ᜠᜣᜳᜦ᜴)

  1. wasp

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 23
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hakut hakut”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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